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Via Michael Geist, we learn that Canadian Member of Parliament Dean Del Mastro, as part of the debate over copyright reform in Canada, is arguing fervently (and mockingly) against the right to format shift legally purchased music, say, from a CD to your digital music player.

The Day 2 keynote at the Visual Studio Live! conference for .NET developers this week highlighted the skill sets and industry changes shaping "The Developer of the Future."

HowtoForge: This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Debian Squeeze. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here.

The /Dev/Hell podcast has released their latest episode co-hosted by PHP community members Chris Hartjes and Ed Finkler - "Episode 12: Irish Eyes Are Always Smiling".

In the wake of Meego’s demise a new open source mobile operating system has emerged. Known as Tizen and backed by Samsung and Intel, the Linux-based OS recently hit the version 1.0 milestone and has even been paired with an official reference hardware platform.

Unlike the alternative OSes that came before it, Tizen does not use the Qt application framework. Instead, Tizen apps are created using HTML5 and other web standards.

It is intended to be used in smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, vehicle entertainment systems, and low-power notebooks.

With its Facebook presence growing, Chuck E.

We've argued for years that intellectual property laws have little, if any, connection to innovation and economic growth.

We've seen so much research on this that, at this point, it's hardly even an open question. And yet... politicians and the press (and beneficiaries of stricter IP law) always seem to insist that there's a clear, undeniable and strong positive connection between stricter IP laws or enforcement and economic growth and innovation.

Unfortunately there are no legitimate studies that seem to support that argument.